On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:13:50AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: | OK, OK, OK, | | I _am_ reading the modem-HOWTO and the wvdial README right now. | | I can see this is a complex subject. | | I have installed minicom but can only run from root. When run from user | I get: | | minicom cannot open /dev/ttyS1: permission denied
$ ls -l /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Dec 31 1969 /dev/ttyS1 Only root and members of the 'dialout' group have access to that device. Add your user to the dialout group to solve this. From man adduser : # adduser <me> dialout -D -- "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." --Daniel Pead